The Chills' Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs represents a remarkable final chapter in Martin Phillipps' legendary New Zealand indie band, capturing songs written during the crucial seven-year period before their 1987 debut Brave Words. These 20 tracks, originally penned in the 1980s, showcase the band's formative years and offer a unique glimpse into The Chills' largely unexplored early catalog that never saw the light of day.
This special gatefold edition on stunning gold vinyl comes with a 26-page "Scrapbook - Martin Phillipps Notes from the Archive Volume 1," making it an essential collector's item. The music itself is described as alarming, personal, and brittle, yet at times hopelessly upbeat, revealing the creative tension between Phillipps' twentysomething self and his decades of musical evolution.
- Format: Vinyl
- Label: Fire Records
- Genre: Rock
- Release Date: 02/28/2025
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TRACKS
A1. Dolphins
A2. Learn To Try Again
A3. If This World Was Made For Me
A4. Juicy Creaming Soda
A5. I'll Protect You
B1. And When You're There
B2. Declaration
B3. Stay Longer
B4. Slime
B5. Steel Skies
C1. Jellyhead
C2. Such Self Pity
C3. Meet My Eyes
C4. Bad Eggs
C5. Lion Tamer
D1. The Other
D2. Since You Left Me
D3. Watching Old Home Movies
D4. I Saw Your Silhouette
D5. I Don't Want To Live Forever
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